Top 10 New Trends for Lawyers in 2016
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Overview
An all-new 2016 edition of our annual look at some of the biggest recent changes in the law & law practice! Presented in a fast-paced manner, with an emphasis on "what you need to know." Topics discussed include:
- Emerging hot new areas of law practice
- Crowdfunding: What's the law on it? How might it affect your clients?
- New technologies, including cloud computing
- Paralegals re-imagined
- "Family Wizard" websites in custody & visitation cases
- Immigration law developments: How do they impact your business clients?
- The recalibration of free speech rights
- Virtual reality technology in the courtroom
- New streamlined rules for federal civil practice
- Update on last year's trends, including the law of drones!
- The ethics of online marketing
- Much more!
- New 7-hour format: Earn all 15 hours of CLE for the year by attending this In-Person seminar along with an 8-hour bundle of On-Demand CLE (see "CLE On-Demand" page of this website for information on On-Demand CLE courses).
Speaker(s)
Meeting Site
Nashville School of Law
4013 Armory Oaks Drive
Nashville, TN 37204-4577
Agenda for Monday, the 27th of February 2017
Agenda is Approximate and Tentative
8:00am - 8:30am - Registration
8:30am - 9:15am - #1 - Immigration Law Developments - An area of increasing importance
9:15am - 9:35am - #2 - Cloud Computing for Lawyers - The benefits and perils of the latest technology trend
9:35am - 10:00am - #3 - The Streamlining of Civil Litigation - The recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are just the latest chapter in the quickening pace of lawsuits
10:00am - 10:10am - Break
10:10am - 10:40am - #4 - Paralegals Re-Imagined - The future holds an expanding role for legal assistants
10:40am - 11:10am - #5 - Family Law: "Conscious Uncoupling" and "Family Wizards" in Custody Cases - Are they mere fads -- or game-changers?
11:10am - 11:45am - #6 - Crowdfunding - What is it? Can it help your clients? What are the rules?
11:45am - 12:55pm - Lunch Break (on your own)
12:55pm - 1:15pm - #7 - Increasing Specialization and Emerging New Areas of Practice - How about a practice in "fashion law"?
1:15pm - 1:50pm - *Update on Some of Last Year's "Top 10" Trends - New developments regarding drones, ObamaCare, and the generation gap
1:50pm - 2:15pm - #8 - Recalibration of the Parameters of Free Speech - Changing social norms are impacting our definitions of free speech
2:15pm - 2:25pm - Break
2:25pm - 3:00pm - #9 - Virtual Reality for Lawyers - Wishing you were here!
3:00pm - 4:00pm - #10 - Digital Marketing for Lawyers (ethics credit)
4:00pm - 5:00pm - (*Bonus Ethics Hour) The Ethics of E-Mails